bombinator

plural bombinators

1. literaryA person who speaks or makes noise to no effect, as a flattering toady or empty orator.

   Alice Duer Miller, erect and fastidious, crowded her manor with clowns and bombinators.

   1954, Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, published 2020, page 395

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   None of this multitude of thinkers and their satellites brought his thoughts into really conclusive contact with the others. To do it would have been to discover much practical identity and so lose distinction. After their fashion, each bombinated abundantly with only the slightest regard to other bombinators.

   1941, H.G. Wells, You Can't be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951, London: Secker & Warburg, page 284

   Therefore our apology to such bombinators, radicals, Utopians and Schoengeisten who might read this work expecting intellectual mayhem.

   1941, Bennett Cerf, Van H. Cartmell, editors, Sixteen Famous American Plays, Random House, page 140

   [T]hese and a score of barroom bombinators and local-room moonshooters were around MacArthur like a Sorbonne faculty.

   1957, Ben Hecht, Charlie: The Improbable Life and Times of Charles MacArthur, Harper, page 62

2. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of bombinator toad.

   Schiff adduces experiments on bombinators and toads[.]

   1898, Wilhelm Biedermann, Electro-physiology, volume 2, Macmillan, page 85

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   Tadpoles of the B. bombina are devoid of anicotto glanduare. Neither is it found in other bombinators (B. pachypus).

   1981, Acta Biologica Cracoviensia: Series: Zoologia, volumes 23-26, page 36